News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-10
NOTABLE CURRENT EVENTS.
TnciIen of Events Taking Place Through
ont the Country.

Iuciien's of Events Taking Place Through
out the Country.
A FARMER III Delaware county, \. Y,
has a pork barrel that has been in con-
slant use for one hundred and sixty
years.
A WOMAN recently obtained heavy
damages against Liverpool omnibus
company for injuries she had sustained
on account of drunken passenger, and
the Court of Appeals in London has
just upheld the verdict.
A CAR of fur recently shipped from
Winnipeg by the Hudson Bay Company
represented the destruction OF 431 bears,
IS silver foxes, ), 1877 beavers, 800 foxes,
1855 lynxes, 8, 17S martins, 29l wolver.
ines 2O7 wolves, and lost of small
animals.
CORONER STEVENSON, of Nyeck, gives
it to a CITY and CGUqt7y representative,
that in his long experience he has never
met with or known of case where
man was drowned. or killed by rail
road accident, that had receipted sub
scription bill for a newspaper IN his
pocket. The doctor has faith in the re
ceipted newspaper subscription bill as a
safe guard against disaster.
Two small boys set out upon the
business of snow shovelling in the
suburbs of Boston. Before entering the
first contract one boy was heard to make
the remark: "You do the shOvclling
and I'll do the Ginning" The part
nership seemed to be satisfactorily a
ranged, and the boy who shovelled was
apparently as contented as the one who
struck the bargain by his Ginning"
AN exchange says it is not whiskey
but pear cider that is consuming the
stomachs and corrodIng the souls of the
yout of Maryland. The popularity of
this seductive beverage is that three
drinks of 1t give a man an irresistible
ambition to kick q star out of the sky
and fasten it upon his scarf pin. Nat
urally enough, the results of such an
undertaking are disastrous in the ex-
IRENE.
AN old farmer in Readfeld had a
rough family of boys many years ago.
One day when he had some company in
the fore room q tremendous uproar was
heard in the kitchen. 1t was evident
that q fearful row was in progress. A
boy broke into the room, crying,
"Father! jim is killing Eill!" The old
man waved him blandly away with h
hand, saying: "Let the lambs play!
Let the lambs play"
WILLIAM DINGLER, of Riverton, III
was in bed, and his wife handed him
their baby preparatory to getting into
bed herself AS she bore her weight
upon the bed it gave way, and all three
went down together. When Dingler
extricated himself with the baby he
found that it was dead There were no
marks on the chi d, and the explanation
of its death is that when the bed broke
the father involuntarily clasped his arms
SO tightly around the baby that the
breath was squeezed out of its little
body.
SIXTY years ago Robin and Allen Will
Der, of Hartford, Ind, agreed that
thereafter they would have all property
and business in common. This life J.,
partnership has never been dissolved;
indeed, it is said that the brothers have
never had the slightest misunderstood
ing, and to-day they are rich and highly
property is absolutely the property of
both, they never give any but joint
notes, they never contract debt that is
not equally binding upon each, and they
are rare examples of happiness and
prosperity.
GEORGE HAMILTON, resident of Wells
vile, Penn, fell on the icy pavement in
front of one of the churches and broke
his leg. He instituted proceedings
against the corporation, claiming s5, 900
damages, and was awarded 500. On
the jury which tried the case was man
from salem, who perslstently fought the
award, and finally succeeded in having
it reduced to $500 The headstrong
Juror returned to his home a few days
ago, and, while walking along one OF
Salems thoroughfares, fell and broke
his leg also. He intends suing the town
for damages.
ACCORDING to Poor's Manual for 1886,
the net earnings of the railroads for
1885 were sos, 1906, 258, and their capt.
tai stock, bonds and other evidences of
Indebtedness footed up $7,676, 800, 900,
of which at least So, 600, 900, 900 is ad-
mitted to be "water." Nobody, how
ever, who Is familiar with railroad
financiering will accept this estimate of
the amount of water in the aggregate of
railroad securities. The face value of
the bonded debt is generally believed to
be about the sum actually invested in
the railroads of the United States, and
that value, rs stated in Poor's Manual,
is So, :G9, lis, 1872.
OF all queer devices pertaining to
seafaring life the queerest is the auto.
matte fog bell that used to ring on Race
Point, Cape Cod. There was big bell
with aclockwork that would mOurnfulIy
toll it whenever it was set a-gomg.
The bell was under cover, but project
ing from the house was a long, nicely
balanced lever with q big sponge on the
out end. There was little roof over
the sponge to keep the rain off, but
when fog came on tie moisture would |
saturate the sponge. and the weight |
bearing the lever down would start the |
machine and set the bell to tolling If |
the fog soon disappeared the sponge |
dried out and the lever stopped the |
bell.